apt-get?

Hi,

are there any plans to provide software updates with apt in Suse? To me
this seems to be the easiest way to quickly get software installed, from
a user's perspective... (and my colleagues wouldn't bug me how
cumbersome it is e.g. to install the latest java VM on Suse)

Regards,
Jörg

Jörg,

I doubt it will become the standard. You can use e.g. Smart to deal with apt-deb and apt-rpm repositories, but I never needed that.

Uwe

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Hi Uwe,

do you per chance have experiences with the instructions in that Smart Suse Wiki article? Does it really work with 10.2?

Regards,
Jörg

Uwe Buckesfeld schrieb:

Jörg, I doubt it will become the standard. You can use e.g. Smart to deal with apt-deb and apt-rpm repositories, but I never needed that. Uwe

* Jörg von Frantzius wrote, On 04/26/2007 05:32 PM:
> Hi Uwe,
>
> do you per chance have experiences with the instructions in that Smart
> Suse Wiki article <http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Smart>? Does it
> really work with 10.2?

No idea, I just use the Smart GUI with a couple of rpm-repositories, no apt, no updater applet. Try it and report back, please.

Uwe

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On Thursday 26 April 2007 05:12, Jörg von Frantzius wrote:

> Hi,
>
> are there any plans to provide software updates with apt in Suse? To me
> this seems to be the easiest way to quickly get software installed, from
> a user's perspective... (and my colleagues wouldn't bug me how
> cumbersome it is e.g. to install the latest java VM on Suse)
>
> Regards,
> Jörg

Apt-rpm became available in 10.0 I believe. I don't think it's officially
supported though. You can try this HOWTO:

<http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Install-apt4suse>

I used apt a lot in 10.0 and 10.1, now I just use YaST since just about
everything is now available via a YaST-compatible repository. I do have
apt set up on 10.2 and it does work with repomd repositories.

HTH

Matt